Theophrastus Quotes
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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He's frustrated with the situation over the last couple years.
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Nothing moves around, it just goes straight from the start to the end. The final draft on the final day, that's it, same for the novels. What I turn in is what you see. There are some exceptions, but almost always I can see exactly what it's going to be.
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I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.
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If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.
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There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.
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But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.
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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
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History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others
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Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.
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... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.
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And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.
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No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.
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Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
